Recycler blues

[jeeptim]

So been stockpiling brass for a few years its becoming a problem I have 9 5 gal buckets full to the top all clean but brass prices are so low it's just not worth the trouble to sort post sell and ship. I have taken out enough for myself for a long time..
I just hate to scrap so much good brass..
Tomorrow is the day. Sad day....

 

[Encoreman]

you should think again, brass prices are higher than ever. Hardly no companies that sell brass have any.

 

[troy fairweather]

Why not fill flat rate boxes and sell as mixed brass.

 

[Bush Pilot]

If you don't need the money I'd hang on to the brass, you don't know what's happening in the future.

 

[AJC1]

There is zero pistol brass available at my bps. Sell it in volume by weight to reduce your effort.

 

[jeeptim]

I dont need the money...
I see brass like 223 1000 cases for $25.00 same with pistol and it's really not moving.
Also their are few primers and powder to be had to load the cases.

 

[dcloco]

22three brass per thousand is selling for 75 and up.

 

[Barbaroja]

Don’t do it! Try listing it locally to you if you don’t want to ship it.

 

[NedNederlander]

Doesn’t seem prudent to dispose of excess brass by way of scrapping it. Are those 5 gallon buckets suddenly in your way or you no longer have the space to continue storing them?

 

[Highland Lofts]

If you lived close to me I would buy it all and do the seperating and selling of it. I just bought the same amount that you have to seperate, clean and sell

I just went through about 600 pounds of range brass.

DON'T SCRAP IT!

 

[Demi-human]

it's just not worth the trouble to sort post sell and ship.

But it is worth it to tell others, without surplus brass, that you’re just going to destroy it?
$3/pound>$25/hundred?
Your math is fuzzy.
Stay home, pack boxes and make profit, by helping shooters, OR, stand in line with perfectly hygienic “scrappers”, all day, for three dollars a pound?

I know what I would do...

5gallons of .223= 70lbs x 3$= $210
5gallons of .223=~3500 cases/100 =35x25=$875

And it’s, as sure as sky and earth, not throwing away $660! Not even because I had to mail some flat rate boxes.

Now, imagine if they were .308 or 44 magnum, not just the cheap stuff...

I hope your lazy has been sufficiently bludgeoned. Or your wallet’s interest acceptably piqued. Find something else to do today.

$875x9=$7875, like look for a really nice over and under, or an Alchemy Custom 1911, or a Harley.

 

[BWS]

$7800?

Shoot,I could get a decent Tig,a fixer upper 13-15" lathe and an OK tooled Bridgeport for that...... by the end of the month.

 

[Highland Lofts]

I hate seeing good brass go to the scrap yards.

 

[lightman]

I'm with the other posters. Don't scrap it. Advertise it for sale. Brass is getting scarce and prices are going up. Buy a few rolls of tape and mail it in medium flat rate boxes.

Yeah, thats easy for me to say. I'm retired. I also like sorting stuff. 9 5 gallon buckets would keep me busy for a while but I would work my way through it.

 

[Highland Lofts]

I enjoy taking a five gallon bucket of range brass and smaller containers to put the seperated brass in and down some budweisers. I seperate it in to different different sizes.
223/5.56 and 300 Blackout
9mm
40cal & 10mm
38, 357 & 44spl, 44mag
45acp
22 rimfire
All the larger centerfire rifle brass goes all together
And then get seperated later.
The odd ball brass goes into another container to be seperated when i get a bunch of it together.
Before I tumble the 38/357 and the 44spl/44mag cases I seperated the two sizes. After they get wet tumbled I seperate the 38spl from the 357mag
And then seperate the 44spl from the 44mag cases..
I find enjoyment playing with all this range brass and I make a few bucks.

 

[jeeptim]

Highland funny you say that. I get some weird enjoyment sorting and tumbling myself.
I do stash all the oddball and lapua, Norma, and Starline and Lake City. I now have more loaded ammo then I need and a stash of brass for 2 lifetimes.

 

[jeeptim]

So called the recycler a buck and quarter a lb gonna hold out.
I'm not yet retired so free time is valuable to me.
Now if anybody wants to come get it $2.00 a lb
You would need to come to the beach in Cali or arrange pick up. Hell if your willing to pick up $1.25 a lb this way we keep it in the family.
For now gonna buy some lids for them buckets and put them out back.

 

[Highland Lofts]

I get free three and five gallon buckets with lids from our local Safeway Stores bakery for my seperated brass. They are all washed out and dry.
I take a month off of work to come back to New York to visit family and to hunt deer for three weeks. I go to the Price Chopper grocery stores bakery and get clean three & five gallon buckets for cutting the deer up.

 

[Ohen Cepel]

I would be on your doorstep with cash in hand if I wasn't so far away...........

 

[Highland Lofts]

Washington state is way to liberal for me, going to California is way out of the question.

 

[Demi-human]

Washington state is way to liberal for me, going to California is way out of the question.

Ha!
What has that to do with a screaming deal in brass, by the pound, in containers easy to load into even a small car?
We’re I not a poor single dad in Michigan but instead called Eugene home, I would definitely take a scenic cruise down the coast.
That is an outstanding offer for brass.
Maybe a post at the reloading section could have them gone in short order. There are a lot of humans in Cali...
Goodwill for shooters, reduction of clutter for Tim, name dropping for THR.ORG, what’s not to like?

 

[AJC1]

What area are we talking because California is huge. Are we talking San Diego, LA, Bay or Monterey area

 

[Highland Lofts]

I don't do cities.

 

[lightman]

I would be on your doorstep with cash in hand if I wasn't so far away...........

So would I if only I was closer. I'm pretty big into Craft Beer and California has a bunch of great breweries. If not for C-19 I would be planning a beercation soon!

 

[BBarn]

I too have some 223 headed to scrap yard. Tried to sell it, but not much interest. Perhaps because of the primer situation. A few people wanted to buy it for next to nothing, but its not worth messing with between driving 20 miles one way to meet them or having no-shows. Scrap yard is a known entity and won't fuss about the dirt or headstamps.